We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"It ingegrates nicely with Office 365."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Two valuable most features are the ability to create columns and create measures."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources."
"Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"You can switch views easily."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"It is not yet ready for enterprises. For a big enterprise data model, it is not so stable, and it also doesn't scale so well."
"I am a SAP user and I would like this tool to have more connectors - and to more easily connect to - the ERP or SAP environment."
"I would like to see more AI capabilities in future releases. There's a strong interest in AI, including technologies like GPT, which facilitate real-time interactions."
"Better mapping capabilities and easier administration access would be beneficial, especially for understanding who has viewed reports."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"The solution could improve by having more attractive graphical charts."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. QlikView report.
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